Men's ELO Rankings 18/01/2016

As players prepare for the Australian Open which starts next week (1st round predictions post coming tomorrow), there were 2 tournaments on this week, in Auckland and Sydney.

Roberto Bautista Agut, © PHIL WALTER/GETTY IMAGES

The Big Gainer of the week award this week goes to Roberto Bautista Agut. He won the tournament in Auckland as the 8th seed, beating John Isner, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, and Jack Sock in the final. His wins gave Roberto 45 ELO rating points, and he climbs 5 places in my rankings to #12.

The Upset player of the week award this week goes to Steve Johnson. He was also at Auckland, but lost in the 1st round to a qualifier who was playing in his 1st ATP event since I started these rankings last year. The 13 ELO rating points lost as a result of this loss caused Steve to fall 3 places in my rankings to a new ranking of #30.

Other strong performers relative to their rankings are Victor Troicki, Teymuraz Gabashvili, Lukas Rosol and Nicolas Mahut.

Now, the full rankings: (side note: This will be the last week I rank Jarkko Nieminen, who retired at the end of the year.)

#	Name	ELO	±
1	Novak Djokovic	1987	0
2	Roger Federer	1860	0
3	Andy Murray	1821	0
4	Rafael Nadal	1794	0
5	Stan Wawrinka	1777	0
6	Tomas Berdych	1725	0
7	Kei Nishikori	1714	0
8	Richard Gasquet	1709	0
9	David Ferrer	1705	0
10	Milos Raonic	1691	0
11	Jo-Wilfried Tsonga	1681	0
12	Roberto Bautista Agut	1671	5
13	Marin Cilic	1670	0
14	Kevin Anderson	1665	-2
15	John Isner	1658	-1
16	Jack Sock	1653	-1
17	Grigor Dimitrov	1627	3
18	Gilles Simon	1626	-2
19	Gael Monfils	1616	-1
20	Philipp Kohlschreiber	1612	-1
21	David Goffin	1610	0
22	Benoit Paire	1602	0
23	Bernard Tomic	1592	1
24	Gilles Muller	1592	7
25	Dominic Thiem	1591	-2
26	Nick Kyrgios	1590	0
27	Fabio Fognini	1586	1
28	Victor Troicki	1583	10
29	Ivo Karlovic	1579	-4
30	Steve Johnson	1576	-3
31	Feliciano Lopez	1572	-1
32	Jeremy Chardy	1568	1
33	Tommy Robredo	1566	-1
34	Joao Sousa	1565	-5
35	Marcos Baghdatis	1561	-1
36	Borna Coric	1549	0
37	Guillermo Garcia-Lopez	1548	-2
38	Leonardo Mayer	1545	-1
39	Vasek Pospisil	1537	2
40	Teymuraz Gabashvili	1529	15
41	Andreas Seppi	1527	1
42	Thomaz Bellucci	1526	-3
43	Alexandr Dolgopolov	1525	8
44	Simone Bolelli	1521	-4
45	Donald Young	1521	-1
46	Chung Hyeon	1520	-3
47	Pablo Cuevas	1519	-2
48	Mischa Zverev	1514	-1
49	Andrey Kuznetsov	1514	-1
50	Lukas Rosol	1514	11
51	Juan Monaco	1512	-2
52	Lucas Pouille	1512	-2
53	Fernando Verdasco	1511	-1
54	Illya Marchenko	1511	-1
55	Sam Querrey	1510	2
56	Jerzy Janowicz	1507	-2
57	Aljaz Bedene	1506	-11
58	Pierre-Hugues Herbert	1506	-2
59	Alexander Zverev	1500	-1
60	Nicolas Mahut	1498	12
61	Robin Haase	1494	5
62	Rajeev Ram	1492	0
63	Radek Stepanek	1492	0
64	Evgeny Donskoy	1489	1
65	Austin Krajicek	1488	2
66	Nicolas Almagro	1487	2
67	Denis Istomin	1486	-8
68	Jiri Vesely	1485	-4
69	Adrian Mannarino	1484	-9
70	Steve Darcis	1484	4
71	Federico Delbonis	1483	5
72	John Millman	1479	-2
73	Victor Estrella Burgos	1479	0
74	Tatsuma Ito	1478	3
75	Yen-Hsun Lu	1478	3
76	Sam Groth	1477	-7
77	Dusan Lajovic	1477	2
78	Martin Klizan	1476	-7
79	Mikhail Kukushkin	1476	-4
80	Dustin Brown	1475	1
81	Thanasi Kokkinakis	1475	1
82	Michael Berrer	1472	1
83	Andrey Rublev	1469	1
84	John-Patrick Smith	1469	1
85	Jared Donaldson	1467	1
86	Paul-Henri Mathieu	1467	1
87	Pablo Andujar	1466	-7
88	Sergiy Stakhovsky	1466	0
89	Ernests Gulbis	1466	0
90	Marcel Granollers	1464	0
91	Andreas Haider-Maurer	1464	0
92	Dudi Sela	1464	0
93	Ricardas Berankis	1463	0
94	Marsel Ilhan	1462	0
95	James Duckworth	1460	4
96	Go Soeda	1459	0
97	Santiago Giraldo	1458	0
98	Denis Kudla	1458	0
99	Diego Schwartzman	1456	1
100	Malek Jaziri	1452	1
101	Yuichi Sugita	1452	1
102	Albert Ramos-Vinolas	1450	-7
103	Blaz Kavcic	1450	0
104	Matthew Ebden	1442	0
105	Jarkko Nieminen	1441	0
106	Pablo Carreno Busta	1440	0
107	Kenny de Schepper	1439	0
108	Daniel Gimeno-Traver	1438	0
109	Tommy Haas	1432	0
110	Lleyton Hewitt	1431	0
111	James Ward	1430	1
112	Tim Smyczek	1427	1
113	Benjamin Becker	1425	-2
114	Joao Souza	1412	0
115	Paolo Lorenzi	1410	0
116	Mikhail Youzhny	1410	0
117	Lukas Lacko	1397	0
118	Jan-Lennard Struff	1371	0